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Marie Artim is Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition for Enterprise Holdings. In this role she has oversight of external and internal recruitment strategy for the organization’s operations around the world.  

Marie’s extensive expertise in various technology services enables her to efficiently guide Enterprise Holdings’ global Talent Acquisition teams by providing resources, training and development to fulfill the teams’ commitment to the business. Her dedication to employee development is a critical element of the organization’s approach to internal mobility. With support and training, and a promote-from-within culture, employees are empowered to explore opportunities for growth.  

Through her unwavering commitment, Marie ensures Enterprise Holdings has the best talent in the right places to support current business needs, growth and the future. Under her leadership, Enterprise Holdings has been recognized with top honors for their Campus Recruiting Program, Careers Website, Diversity Recruitment and Candidate Experience.

Marie is a well-respected voice in Talent Acquisition and has shared her unique perspective at many industry conferences and universities and has been featured in national media outlets including BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New Yorker and Good Morning America.

She is also active in the community and served as President of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and is the current President of the board for Food Outreach, a St Louis Based non-profit.

Chelsea C. Williams is a passionate Entrepreneur, Workplace Educator, and Mentor to the next generation workforce.

As the Founder & CEO of Reimagine Talent Co. she & her team support employers, education institutions, and nonprofits in spearheading multi-generational workforce & talent development solutions rooted in belonging.

She is a frequent contributor to media outlets like CNBC, Fast Company, Investment News, Insider, and Forbes on managing & leading multi-generational teams and engaging & developing Generation Z.

Chelsea's honors include receiving the 2021 Forbes Next 1000 Award for small businesses redefining the American dream and being selected as a 2022 Tory Burch Entrepreneurial Fellow.

 

Josiah is a Partner in the Boston office of Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP where he provides strategic guidance to employers on all facets of the complex US business immigration process. He represents employers in the information technology, energy, insurance, management consulting, and legal industries before the US Department of Labor, US Department of Homeland Security, and US Department of State in addition to providing counsel regarding immigration compliance, program management, and corporate reorganizations. Josiah is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association where he serves on the national Department of Labor Liaison Committee and is a frequent speaker at the local and national levels on business immigration matters.

Josiah is also passionate about giving back to his community and provides pro bono counsel to a number of organizations including Doctors Without Borders and Kids in Need of Defense.

Sean Trotman has more than 25 years experience advising clients on employment tax, incentive compensation and mobility program policy and tax matters.  His clients range from small, privately held companies to some of the largest, most complex organizations in the world.  He has served as the lead advisor to many companies in the context of corporate reorganizations, particularly as to the implications for their compensation and incentive plan arrangements.  In addition, Sean is the Deloitte Lead Client Service Partner (overseeing all services) for two Fortune 500 companies.

Sean is a sought after speaker at local, national and international learning and development programs, as well as external professional conferences.  He has authored a number of articles for various publications, and contributed content to books, on cross-border tax, talent and rewards issues.  Sean is member of the Board of British American Business, a pre-eminent transatlantic business organization, for whom he serves on the Executive Committee as Treasurer. He is also actively involved with the Global Equity Organization and was recently appointed as a Fellow of Global Equity for his contributions to the global share plan industry.

Outside of his professional life, Sean holds a second degree blackbelt in Taekwondo (Korean martial art) and also enjoys trail and road biking and long distance running while his knees still allow him (he has run 5 marathons, all outside of the US, since turning 40!).

Sean was born and raised in England and earned his Bachelor’s degree in International Business and French from Aston University.  Post graduation, he qualified with the Association of Taxation Technicians in the United Kingdom.  Sean has also studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Rouen, France and is fluent in French.  Sean has lived in the United States for the last 20 years.

Lynden Melmed is a partner with Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP and oversees the firm’s compliance and government affairs practices. He counsels corporate clients on complex immigration matters, assists businesses in establishing and managing global immigration programs, and represents businesses in connection with audits and investigations by the federal government. He has served as immigration counsel in connection with several of the largest immigration investigations ever pursued by the federal government.

Before joining BAL, Lynden served as Chief Counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), where he was a key advisor to senior leadership within USCIS, DHS, the White House, and other federal agencies on all aspects of immigration law. Lynden also served as Special Counsel to Senator John Cornyn, who was Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship; in that role, Lynden played a leading role in drafting and managing comprehensive immigration legislation.

Eileen is a Senior Associate and member of BAL’s Government Strategies team in BAL’s Washington, D.C., office. Eileen graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in English and French and a J.D. from American University College of Law. She is a legislative and government policy expert and provides strategic counsel to clients on corporate immigration program compliance and management.

Eileen has expertise advising clients on a wide-range of corporate immigration matters, including Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance, H-1B program obligations and immigration audits.

Her career experience includes appellate work at the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation and policy engagement with the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project. Eileen is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and serves on the Verification and Documentation Committee.

Isaac Mamaysky is a partner in Potomac Law Group PLLC where he provides employment law, commercial contracts, and compliance guidance to management teams, in-house attorneys, and HR professionals across industries. His clients include multinational corporations, large educational institutions, national nonprofits, and privately held startups. Isaac regularly conducts internal investigations, writes employee handbooks, drafts commercial contracts, leads complex negotiations, advises on ethics/compliance matters, and counsels clients on every phase of the employment lifecycle.  

In addition to his practice, Isaac is an adjunct professor of law and teaches classes at the intersection of employment law, ethics/compliance, and human resources. He has published and been quoted in dozens of articles on these topics, including in Fortune Magazine, Lexis Nexis’ Law360, SHRM, and various academic journals.  

Isaac began his career at an AmLaw 100 law firm and has extensive in-house experience. He is also the cofounder of a large 501(c)(3) corporation that has employed more than 1,000 people over the past decade. He approaches clients’ legal needs with a business mindset and especially enjoys serving as outside general counsel to leadership teams, bringing together his management background and legal experience to help achieve their goals. 

Jay has more than 30 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in employee benefits.  Prior to joining World, Jay was a Sr. VP and Senior ERISA Attorney with Lockton was previously the national practice leader for the legal and research team at WT.W

Jay served as a Peace Corps volunteer and business consultant from 1979 to 1982. 

He has an LL.M.  in taxation from New York University School of Law, J.D. with distinction from the University of Arizona College of Law and a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis.  Jay is the former Chair of the American Benefits Council, an adjunct professor of employee benefits in the LL.M. program at Washington University School of Law.

 

 

 

 

Jay has more than 30 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in employee benefits.  Prior to joining World, Jay was a Sr. VP and Senior ERISA Attorney with Lockton was previously the national practice leader for the legal and research team at WT.W

Jay served as a Peace Corps volunteer and business consultant from 1979 to 1982. 

He has an LL.M.  in taxation from New York University School of Law, J.D. with distinction from the University of Arizona College of Law and a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis.  Jay is the former Chair of the American Benefits Council, an adjunct professor of employee benefits in the LL.M. program at Washington University School of Law.

 

 

 

 

Mario Bordogna is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Practice at the law firm of Bowles Rice, LLP working with employers nationwide on the front end to keep them in legal compliance with labor and employment laws and on the back end if they need a strong and experienced litigation advocate.  For 25 years, Mario has represented employers in sectors like health care, education, energy, hospitality, manufacturing, and others in the areas of HR/employment counseling, employment litigation, wage and hour, harassment, trade secret and non-competition matters, labor-management relations, accommodation, policy development and investigations, and much more.

Marcia "Marcie" Lang, holds a doctoral degree in Addiction Psychology, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional. Her clinical mental health career spans over 30 years, specializing in workplace consultations, including workplace behavioral and performance issues.  She is the author of the book Hidden Disabilities in the Workplace, which delivers a straightforward, non-nonsense approach to managing employees with non-obvious disabilities in the workplace.

Alberto Ruisanchez is the Chief of the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.  IER enforces a law that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of citizenship and national origin, educates the public about the law, and engages in policy work to advance the office’s mission.  For two years, he served as an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General overseeing several of the Sections in the Civil Rights Division, including the Employment Litigation Section and the Disability Rights Section.  Prior to serving as IER’s Chief, Mr. Ruisanchez served as a Deputy Chief in the Disability Rights Section and a trial attorney in the Voting Section and Housing & Civil Enforcement Section.  Mr. Ruisanchez clerked for the Honorable Juan Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and he graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. 

Eric M. Dunleavy, Ph.D., is a Principal Consultant at DCI Consulting Group, where he is involved in equal employment opportunity audit and litigation consulting. He also serves on staff with the Center for Corporate Equality (CCE), which is a national nonprofit employer and research association based in Washington, DC, whose mission is to promote proactive affirmative action, equal employment regulatory compliance, and other human resource management strategies to create diverse organizations free from workplace bias. Eric's primary areas of expertise are in employee selection, employment testing, validation research, adverse impact analyses and other quantitative methods. His most recent work has focused on advanced quantitative analyses for assessing adverse impact and on selection procedure validation research in the context of OFCCP enforcement. Eric received his M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2004) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a concentration in data analysis from the University of Houston. He received an Honors B.A. (2000) in Psychology from St. Anselm College.